Opening to passion as an unsettling, transformative force; extending desire to the text, expanding the self, and dissolving its boundaries; imagining pleasures outside the norm and intensifying them; overcoming loss and reaching beyond death; being loyal to oneself and defying productivity, resolution, and cohesion while embracing paradox, non-linearity, incompletion.
These are some of the possibilities of lyric that this book explores by reading Petrarch's vernacular poetry in dialogue with.
Ici Berlin Press Possibilities of lyric: reading petrarch in dialogue, hardcover/manuele gragnolati
